Old Burlap and Sourdough

livery stable burlap
sewed the gunnysack shut
seven grains ephraim feeds
on the wind

culture gives rise
to pioneer spirit with
a deep hunger for homesteading
sourdough feeds what gossip starves

granite tombstone sparkles
feldspar grains embedded with
laudanum taken as tincture of opium
quarter-pint bottle thirty drops equal
to one grain overdose of religion opioid antagonist

blacksmith hammered
with poppy tea to go
with the biscuit for the
decorative purposes of his
trade the anvil allergic to
burlap like belle star should've
been to cole younger of outlawry
and the preacher who signed the bible
page in tarnished glamour in a vain attempt
his two bits spectator at a peep show watching
a pair of lesbians in a homosexual orgy

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, celebrity firebrand lesbian novelist